businessinsider.com - 5/18/2009
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More than a social phenomenon, Facebook harbors a lively and growing ecosystem of game and other application makers, ad networks and retailers of virtual goods. What happens when businesses running on Facebook become bigger than Facebook itself?
That could very well be the case ...
techcrunch.com - 5/19/2009
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techcrunch.com —
In the last couple of weeks Facebook received
and turned down a term sheet for a new...
$200 million venture round of funding that would value the company at $8 billion, we’ve learned from a source with direct knowledge of the proposed ...
(more)
Facebook Turns Down $8 billion Valuation Term Sheet, ...
venturebeat.com - 5/16/2009
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venturebeat.com —
Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in
capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to...
buy out shares of hundreds of regular employees. Hundreds of the Palo Alto, Calif.’s employees have now toiled at the company for more ...
(more)
Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees
allfacebook.com - 5/15/2009
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allfacebook.com —
Want to call your Facebook friends via video
chat? Soon enough you’ll be able to. Earlier today...
one of our readers sent us a link to one of Facebook’s cached JavaScript files which reveals a number of clues as to a soon to be released ...
(more)
Facebook Prepares To Launch Live Video Chat Product
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Around the Web 5.18.09: OpenTable's IPO, the Internet's secret passwords, Twitter and small businesses
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... Those "secret questions" you answer to help you remember the password to your 8 million Internet accounts might not be so secret after all. Technology Review -- New phones and operating systems have cellphone makers hoping for a big summer. NYT -- Small businesses that use Twitter often have good results, boosting daily sales at one pizza joint 15%. Ad Age -- Facebook apps might make more money than Facebook in 2009. Silicon Alley Insider -- OpenTable goes public this week, in one of the first Silicon Valley IPOs in a loooong time. ...
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